Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-16
WILLIAM O'BRIEN.
The Editor OF United Ireland Gives
the Press His Views on the
Exact status OF Affairs.
Quebec Offers to Furnish Him With a
staIwart Armed Body Guard co
Escort Him to Toronto.
O'BRIEN AT MONTREAL


MONTREAL. P. O., May 14.-William
O'Brien arrived IN the city to-day at 8
O'Clock by the steamer Montreal, which
left Quebec yesterday afternoon, at
O'Clock. As both himself and the evicted
tenant, Killbride, were greatly fatigued,
they asked to be allowed to remain on
board few hours later and enjoy few
hours of rest, which they were
allowed to do. Mr.. O'Brien left the yes
sci at 10 O'Clock. The threats from
Toronto continue to loom bigger
and bigger, but the editor of
United Ireland and the people here
who are best qualified to Judge,
assert that they are only threats.
There is a mistake in connection with the
statement already published that Mayor
HowIand's dispatch to Mr.. O'Brien was
not paid for. 1t was paid for to this
city, but the telegraph authorities
informed Mr.. O'Brien that they
would not forward it to Quebec where
3Ie@Was unless it was prepaid by him.
The Statement that Mr.. O'Brien was es-
Hcortett to the hall in this city where he
IeCtUfed, by men armed with revOlVers
.Bas,G pure fiction. Ne such thing Oc-
peqE5ed. His visit here is kindly looked
upon by all parties, particularly since he
has spoken, which has brought over many
non-Irish who expected him to appear
on the platform with sword in one hand
and dynamite bomb in the other. The
most significant fact that has as yet
transpired is the offer of Quebec men to
send a stalwart body guard of armed men
to escort O'Brlen to Toronto. Mr..
O'Brien is anxious to do nothing that
can be construed into violation of law.
TORONTO EXCITED.
TORONTO, ONT, May 1.-THE widest
excitement reigned here this morning
owing to a report being circulated that
Editor O'Brien arrived by the Grand
Trunk Express at 8 O'Clock this morn
ing. Since it has become known that he
is still in Montreal, but the report will
have the effect of swelling the crowd at
the anti-O'Brien meeting IN Queens park
this afternoon. Mayor Rowland received
telegram from Chicago threatening him
with sudden extinction if he presides at
the Queens park meeting.
THE EXACT SITUATION.
MONTREAL, P. O., May 14.-Perhaps
the exact situation may best be asCer-
tanned from O'Brien himself, who spoke
to an Associated Press representative this
IS ILEIUOOu
the result has more than answered my
most sanguine expectations. From end
| to end of this Province of Quebec, al
! though of course I have encountered 8
good many opponents, have not expe-
rienCed the slightest mark of discourtesy,
not to say violence. l have met some
who doubted the ACCESSIBILITY of our visit
! but l have not met a single one
|
we had ample stand and most terrible
! justification for the course which we
! have taken. l have been simply amazed
at the extent to which prejudice sd p1ss
scrupuIousIy aroused against US hsabeen
dissipated in the course of the dfiefest
| intercourse with the people. The fact is.
of course due not to ourselves but
! to the absolutely unanswerable
| strength of our indictment. [ find th8t
within the last two days the condemaa-
| ton of Lord LansdOwne has become
! greatly intensified, and is showing itself
| in quarters from which 1 least expected
| it. As for our experience in Quebec, it
was so uniformly satisfactory that, al
| though had the pleasure of making the
acquaintance of very large number in
deed ofcitiZens, of all grades and all ma
tionalities, / can honestly say l did not
hear a single expression favorable to
Lord LansdOwne, while his opponents
who attended our demonstration were
free Ia their acknowledgements that our
statements, if unrebutted, were simply
appalling. This result is 1 think thor
ouehly secured: That the Canadian
Lzeople recognize that a case has
i'been made which must be answered.
Not a single one of Lord Lans-
downe's champions of the press has
attempted to tackle the facts Of the con-
troversy, although Lord LansdoWne
many weeks ago, through his aid de
camp, supplied them with his version of
the transactions. His friends are reduced
to two parties, neither of which will bear
the light of robust public criticism for a
moment. The first is that Gov
ernor-General Lord Lansdowne is above
all criticism from the people whom he
rules and who pay him. This is q
doclrine so antipathic TO British con-
stitutional law that I can scarcely
imagine how any person instructed in the
rudiments of English constitutional
history can for moment seriously pro-
pound it. The Queens civil list is one
item of expense as is the expense of
royal palaces, and even of the
marriage doweries which the Queen
asks for her children. An English con-
stitutional lawyer would smile at the sug-
gestion that because the Queen can do no
wrong when acting as the mouthpiece of
the state, that governor general paid by
the Canadian people can do no wrong
either, althoughit IS shown beyond posi-
bility of denis9 that he is using Canadian
money for tie perpetrstion of an injus-
kice (which Caaadian Parliaments have
agaiaand si@ga1n denounced.
r g. Fayoritism ~
Is 5sy f6ing, bssDr. PIECES "Easertss